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Churchill appears underbriefed, garrulous, exhausted. One day he offered the Soviets access to the Mediterranean; on another he almost gave away the German fleet (then in British hands). Stalin comes carrying plans for a neo-czarist empire stretching across half of Europe. Dapper Harry Truman arrives with such members of his old Missouri gang as his "personal rascal," General Harry Vaughan...
...Alchemist is based on the principle that "there's one born every minute." One by one a set of types troupes in to see the quack magician, Subtle, in search of it is they want--money, women, success. Dapper (Stephen Kolzak) is a boring dandy of an accountant who wants to be successful as a gambler; he winds up with a blindfold over his eyes, gingerbread stuffed in his mouth, and a dead mouse in his fist. Drugger (Denis Pelli) is an honest tob acconist who wants his shop to prosper; Pelli stammers and shuffles cringingly enough...
Neither of Coppola's two Godfathers could be accused of making the underworld life seem attractive, and Michael is even less romanticized than his father. Vito's world was a community where, if he walked down he street in New York's Little Italy, dapper old men and peasant-faced old women would how to him and kiss his hand. Even Michael's own lieutenants in New York would probably be unable to recognize him, his empire grown so large that his isolation at the top is unavoidable...
...addict knows, Kojak is a dapper detective who exudes animal charm and a street-wise sixth sense. The man whose investigative exploits led to the series, however, is no cop, and he is no well-tailored charmer. He is Reporter Selwyn Raab, 40, who looks more like rumpled Peter Falk than Telly Savalas. His tenacious reporting has brought him a dozen awards and the pleasure of seeing two victims of law-enforcement abuses walk out of prison...
Lean, tireless, dapper and serenely poised, Parsky was born in Connecticut, graduated from Princeton, and was for a time an English teacher (he still unwinds by reading Wordsworth and Keats). He later became a corporate securities lawyer and then a middle-level Treasury official. He left that post in 1973 for the Federal Energy Office, then headed by Simon, where he established himself as a crack coordinator and credible witness in congressional hearings. When Simon became Treasury Secretary, he tailored a new job especially for Parsky. Among other things, Parsky is charged with developing policies to muffle the impact...